Let’s have a look at his itinerary for Australia from his diaries. De-parting from Yokohama, the ship stopped at the ports of Kōbe, Moji, and Nagasaki before leaving Japan and stopping at Hong Kong and Guangzhou in China. Later, on the fifteenth, the ship arrived in Ma-nila, Philippines. On the seventeenth he left port and crossed the equator, describing the event as follows. It has been fewer than thirty days since we departed Japan, and the ship has entered foreign lands where the natural scenery is new to my eyes. Traveling alone, I can’t help but feel a little emotional, having found myself south of the equator for the first time. On the twenty-fifth the ship passed through New Guinea and stopped at Australia’s Thursday Island before arriving in Townsville on the twentieth. Twenty-eight days had passed since leaving Japan. It was springtime in April when he departed but the southern hemi-sphere was transitioning from autumn to winter. He traveled around from Brisbane to Sydney and then to Melbourne. (He learned that there were more than 150 female students at the University of Mel-bourne and twice as many at the University of Sydney. This is said to be why Toyo University later became the first co-educational school in Japan). On May sixteenth he changed ships in Melbourne and headed for South Africa. As the ship was pulling away from Tasmania, he saw a pod of whales. He described reaching the edge of the southern hem-isphere as follows. 177
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